Originally Posted by lwm_rn

Hi...my 30 year-old husband has recently been diagnosed with moderate to severe peripheral neuropathy in his feet. This all started within the last year. He has had numerous blood tests (including for diabetes) come back normal. He has had an EMG which gave the moderate/severe results. He is going for a spinal tap this week and possibly a nerve biopsy if the tap doesn't give any abnormal results.
My question involves medication induced neuropathy. You see, my young husband has quite an extensive medical history. He takes betapace for atrial fibrillation, zetia for high cholesterol/trigylcerides, allopurinol for gout. He also has a "fatty liver." He was diagnosed with Lyme disease in April but was noticing problems with his feet months before this. Is anyone aware of any link between some of these meds, particularly the allopurinol or zetia, and PN? Our neurologist seems to blow this off.
Also what exactly is he looking for with the spinal tap and nerve biopsy? The neurologist did vaguely touch on a connection with cancer. What sort of disease progression do we have to look forward to? What can we do to treat/stop the neuropathy? He is sooo young to have all this going on. I feel like maybe there is one thing that could tie all this together.
Thanks!